I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
“All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales… — Ramsey Isler Copy Share Image
On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle. — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew… — Huey Long Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us… — George Williamson Copy Share Image
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Just to let you know I don't post my books and things on the net in hopes of being rich. The reason… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“The library was full of wizards, who care about their books in the same way that ants care about their eggs and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it.… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
We have a slate of four films. From Karen Young - the USA bestselling author - we have Blood Bayou. Again, we're… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books. — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning. — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth. — Spyridon Marinatos Copy Share Image
Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I think we in journalism were really late to social networks. We had a built-in network already in terms of our readers,… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little… — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.” — Markus Herz Copy Share Image
I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the… — Kirsten Prout Copy Share Image
“I'm looking forward tomorrow to a peaceful Sunday spent in bed with Churchill's 'Life Of Marlborough'. Funny that he should be Prime… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally. — Ken Hill Copy Share Image
“Books nurtured, guided and comforted me as a child. Books were my substitute parents and teachers, when the adults in my life… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“You're the same today as you will be in five years except for 2 things : The people you meet n the… — Sharon L. Lechter Copy Share Image
“While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. Cyril Connolly (English critic and editor,… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“I’m 11 sizes smaller!” An embarrassing encounter with a friend forced this Shape reader to kick-start a healthy lifestyle and” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
